Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-05-27
BRIEFS.

Stantly kuteu.
A base ball match is to be played be-
tween the Shepherdstowna and Kearneys-
vile boys on Saturday. The game will
take place at Kearneysville.
A party of fishermen from West
Chester, Pa, have been angling in the
Potomac this week for bass. We UNDER
stand that they have been fairly success
full.
Sergeant Arthur gathers i'm cow or
two every now and then and puts them
in the pound. 1t costs more to pasture
them on the streets than it would to
rent a field.
When you are counting girl twenty
seven years old, DONE get nervous for
fear the old man will come down stairs
about one or two o'clock and invite you
to breakfast. He won't bother you.
Mr.. George Adams has bought horse
and wagon, and desires to inform the
public that he Is prepared to do all kinds
Of hauling at low rates. We hope he
will receive fair share of patronage.
The Shepherd Fire Department of
this place has received an invitation to
attend the decoration day ceremonies at
Charlestown next Saturday. 1t will 60
if enough members to make good
showing can be gotten together.
At Hagerstown on Wednesday Eman.
uel Cump was found guilty of murder
in the second degree for shooting and
killing his brother Carlisle and serious
ly wounding his mother some weeks
ago, an account Of which we published
at that time.
Clydesdale, a horse belonging to
Thomas Nelson, in Clarke county, Va,
killed his keeper, Mahlon Redmon, last
Saturday afternoon. He crushed his
arm, knocked him down and jumped on
him. This is the third man the animal
has killed.
A corporation election for five coun
cilmen was held at Martinsburg on
Monday. The following were elected:
First ward, NJ. w. Martin; second ward
E. C. Williams, Jr.; third ward, G. w.
DeGraDge; fourth ward, John We'll
linger; fifth ward, Arthur Stephens.
Mr.. Anthony Blondel, who was en-
gagged in the timing business in Mar
tinsburg for forty years. and at one time
was deputy sheriff and jailer, was found
dead in his bed at an early hour last
Sunday morning. His death is supposed
to have resulted from apOplexy. He
was in his SEVENTEEN year.
There has recently been strong ad.
vance 10 the price of straw board, and
quotations are higher than they have
been for years. 1t is hoped by some
that this fact will be the means of hav-
ing the paper mill at this place started
up again. We sincerely wish something
would set it running again.
The furnace at the Shenandoah iron
works, on the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road, in Page county, Va, has shut
down owing to failure to secure coke
by reason of the strike in Pennsylvania.
About one hundred and fifty NEIL are
thrown out of employment. The ore
banks employing some three hundred
men are still being worked.
James NJ. Richards, aged seventy-two,
a highly respected and worthy farmer
of Frederick county, Va, shot himself
Friday at the home Of his son, M. A.
Richards. He fired the contents OF a
double. barrelled shotgun into his stom-
| ach, causing almost instantaneous death.
He had been in delicate health, which
it is supposed had effected his mind.
Mr.. d.. Rentch and We editor had
pretty narrow escape from drowning at
the Cement Mill last week. The boat,
getting caught ina swift current, was
drawn through a break in the race wall,
spillng out the occupants uncersmoni-
ously. Aside from a shock to the nerves
and few bruises, no personal damage
was done. A mighty nice lot of fishing
tackle was lost, though, for the recov-
ery of which liberal reward will be
paid.
The two virginias-the Old and West
Virginia-wil be represented in the
Senate of the Fiftieth Congress ny an
aggregate of the youngest members OF
that body in respect to years ever re-
corded in any two adjoining States. John
w. Daniel, who succeeds Malone, is not
vet A years old; his senior colleague,
Harrison Riddleberger, is ayear young
or. while Camden's successor from West
Virginia, Charles j. Faulkner, is but
40. and his senior colleague, kenna, Is
just 80.
AT Roanoke, Va, last week, young
man named George ID. Lavelle, while
under the Influence of liquor, went to
the house of his friend, c. Z. Reynolds,
and without the slightest provocation
drew revolver and fired, the ball TAX.
ing effect i'm Reynolds's head. back OF
the right ear, intiicting wound which
will probably prove fatal. Lavelle then
placed the pistol against his own head
and fired. The ball crashed through his
head. and Lavelle was dead in few
seconds.
Governor Wilson has made the follow
ing appointments: j. ii. Miller, Of
Summers county, fish commissioner,
third district; J. E. Peck, Of Logan
county, and A. F. Whelan, of Lewis
county, directors of West Virginia Hos
pital for the Insane; John A. McGuffin,